S-DAI Industry Offers Outstanding Products

S-DAI Industrial Co., Ltd., established in 1978, specializes in making machines for turning out garment, stationery, and flower packaging. The company focuses on manufacturing machine models that are especially easy to operate, and has also branched into niche models such as machines for cutting printed-circuit boards, says General Manager Jiang Jyh-long.

After Jiang founded the business the focus was long on machines for making garment bags. Over the past 10 years or so, however, domestic manufacturers of such machines have moved offshore along with the island's garment manufacturers. Those that remained in Taiwan, Jiang says, have had to explore new markets.

Among the niche markets to first be explored by S-DAI were the flower-package and stationery-package machinery markets. These two lines have grown steadily over the years, helping the company offset dwindling sales in the garment-package machine segment.

Over the past few years, S-DAI has introduced computerized models that automatically handle precision adjustment of bag dimensions. "Computerized models are 30% more efficient than manually controlled types," Jiang says. "Our automated machines can turn out 120 to 150 30cm x 30cm bags a minute. All the control programs for the company's machines are co-developed by its engineers and contracted software developers."

Jiang says that his company can undercut Japanese and German suppliers by 30% on price while rivaling them in quality. He attributes this feat mostly to Taiwan's well-developed electronics industry. "Many Japanese and German stationery manufacturers and flowershop operators now prefer our machines to those supplied by manufacturers in their own countries," he states.

According to Jiang, success in the stationery and flower-packaging machine markets depends on the ability of suppliers to meet customer demands for models that are attractive, precise, efficient, and quiet. All of the components used in S-DAI's machines are locally sourced, except for the servomotors, which the company imports from Japan.

S-DAI has a monthly production capacity of 25 machines, most of which go to emerging economies such as mainland China, Southeast Asian nations, and India. The company expects to boost shipments to the European market soon; it is hard at work bringing the circuitry of its machines into compliance with the CE standard.

PCB cutting machines are another revenue earner for S-DAI. According to Jiang, the company has captured 80% of the specialty market. "This machine is very efficient and only a few units are needed to handle huge board output," he explains.

S-DAI Industrial Co., Ltd.
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